Article: Halo effect; The Master Chief returns for a final thrilling adventure in the year's most anticipated video game, "Halo 3.".(VITA.MN)

Byline: Randy A. Salas; Staff Writer

Bigger. Badder. Better. There's your three-word review for "Halo 3."

No game could live up to the unprecedented hype heaped upon Microsoft's latest entry in its popular video-game series - this one marking the debut of the first-person shooter on the Xbox 360 - but "Halo 3" comes admirably close.

The legendary armored hero Spartan-117, aka the Master Chief, returns in the third installment of the 26th-century sci-fi epic. This time, the battleground is a ravaged Earth, with the Master Chief leading humanity in a final showdown against the Covenant with the help of a handful of defectors from that alien ...

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